Watershed groups like these represent one of the one of the fastest growing areas of community-based collaboration. Throughout the country, and they play an increasingly prominent role in environmental management.

Awards are granted under the guidance and administration of Eastern and Western PA Coalitions of Abandoned Mine Reclamation. EPCAMR and WPCAMR are non-profit associations organized to encourage the reclamation, remediation, and redevelopment of lands and streams.

ARIPPA members have donated a total of $60,000 to various deserving volunteer watershed and conservancy groups actively battling Pennsylvania’s mine legacy problem

Remediation projects are costly and long-term endeavors with costs averaging between $10-20,000 per acre, according to the Pennsylvania Mining Reclamation Advisory Board. The ARIPPA Reclamation Awards are designed to help watershed groups continue their volunteer efforts toward improving our environment.

ARIPPA is a non-profit trade association representing alternative energy plants that remove coal refuse from AML areas, convert it into alternative energy. The ash by-product is then used to reclaim thousands of acres of mine-scarred lands and hundreds of miles of formerly dead streams back to their natural state, without any expenditure of tax dollars.

To date over 200 million tons of coal refuse have been converted into alternative energy by member plants.

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This Blog is a companion to www.PaEnvironmentDigest.com, the weekly online newsletter published by Crisci Associates, Harrisburg, PA.
I can be contacted at 717-576-0420 or by sending email to: DHess@CrisciAssociates.com.
I served as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection from 2001 to 2003, Executive Deputy at DEP from 1995 to 2001, as staff to the PA Senate Environmental Committee and various positions in the former Department of Environmental Resources, working on environmental issues for over 40 years.